The Irish standard., 1887-08-20
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
TIE carpenters have local unions in 800
cities and towns of the United States and
Canada.
THE New York 'longshoremen are indi-
vidually seeking to have their old rate Of
wages restored.
TIE coal miners in the West have do
rather than strike.
AN electrical exhibition is to be held in
New York, and 10000 feet OF space has al
ready been applied for.
ENGLISH iron exporters boast they have
averaged one thousand tons per day OF old
material to the United States.
The Leadville smelters have $4,000 tons
more of lead ore on hand now than they
had at the opening of the year.
CANADA averages s25, 100000 to SD, ,o0o, 600
worth of lumber exports per annum. One
third comes to the United States.
BUILDERS might note that yellow pine is
eighty nine per cent. stronger than white
pine, forty-two per cent. stronger than
white oak and sixty per cent. s5ron ger than
Norway pine.
THE condition of the working-men in
Great Britain has improved materially
over what it was year ago. Employment
is more general One order has just been
given for $50, 600 steel sleepers.
A PITTSBURGH coal miner has patented q
coal mining machine which will undercut
from AZ to 6 feet, 1t weighs less than 300
pounds and will mine fifty tons per day.
Compressed air or steam can be used.
TEE printers anticipate that the nine
hour-law rule, when carried out, will ap-
portion the work to be done more evenly
among all who want work. tits to go into
effect on November l, and sixty days. mo-
tice will DO given to publishers.
AN order for 5000 guns recently placed
with the Remingtons has been increased
to II, 600. The Fail River iron works will
soon shut down completely. The Russian
Government has placed an immense order
for rifles with Connecticut firm.
TIE coal output Of the world is 40s, 00o,-
duces lO6 900, 600; Asia, 5000. 600, and Afri-
per cent. Of all, or 295, 00, ,0O0 TONS The
average per head Of population through hout
the world is 225 pounds.
The English co-operatives have a bank
whose transactions amount to to $50, O0O, 900
ayear. They have !, 400 stores and do busi-
ness of $3.50, 900, 600 year: Their 900, 900
members receive an annual profit of $l5,-
0OO,09O Their profits during the past
twenty-four years have been $154 0o0, 900.
S1xTY-Two sub companies of the Ameri.
with licenses, $54, 1911. The business
yields S11, $780, 900 gross earnings and 81, 150,-
700 net earnings. There are 147,068 ex-
change subscribers and 6,08S employees.
The total 'hellos" last year were 312,655,-
no.
THERE are contracts out among the car
works for 10000 cars. Nearly all the rail-
road companies have arrangements under
way for increasing their shop facilities.
The Pennsylvania railroad will lead on
with $500, ,0W machine and repair shop,
Machine-shop work is in very active de-
mand.
TH1 st. Louis and Chicago interest,
through President Wing, has purchased
the mineral right to 1900 acres of rich Mt
Olive coal lands in Illinois, making 12,0O0
acres of coal the company own near Mt
Olive. Shafts are now being sunk, and
several mines will shortly be In successful
operation.
AUGUSTA, Ca, has twelve cotton fac
tories, worth 76,670,00o, employing 4.28s
persons, who oberate 2l2,a36 spindles.
Water power costs $3.50 per horse power
there; in New England it costs 942> It
would not pay to use coal if 1t We're fur
n,shed for nothing. About $4,000 bales Of
cotton are consumed annually.
JAPANESE officials ara prying into Pater.
son silk factories In Japan old hand
looms are being thrown out and the Jac~
guard loom is being introduced. New mills
are being erected and filled with the best
machinery. Last year the Japanese threw
into the American market an immense
stock of handkerchiefs and totally upset
Amer ican calculations.
SINCE the Massachusetts, shoe strike
started machines have been brought into
use which do much work previously dcne
by boys, such as toe and heel seats, tying
lasting, etc. The employers are now en-.
joying their victory, and manufacturers
are devising plans by which strikes can be
averted In the future. One is to create
fund of 81 week for each operative until
it shall reach $50, which draws six per
cent. interest If the men strike they for
felt their money. Another concern offers
several annual prizes for the saving of the
largest percentage Of earnings. which
amount to 1925.